Best solution I can find is to use a router to force mail to go to the
machine you want. Use the domainlist driver, i.e.
bad_server_router_1:
driver = domainlist
transport = remote_smtp
route_list = "*.mail.com recv.mail.com byname"
that should work.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thorkild Stray" <thorkild@???>
To: "Philip Hazel" <ph10@???>
Cc: <exim-users@???>
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 7:00 AM
Subject: Re: [Exim] When the lowest numbered MX is firewalled.
> On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Philip Hazel wrote:
>
> >On 30 Aug 2001, Thorkild Stray wrote:
> >
> >> adm.mail.com MX 5 gw.mail.com
> >> adm.mail.com MX 10 recv.mail.com
> >> gw.mail.com does not allow connections directly to itself, it is
> >> firewalled. To send mail, one must send it to recv.mail.com, which is
> >> allowed to connect to the gw directly.
> >DON'T DO THIS! Sorry for shouting, but this is something that is
> >*really* annoying.
>
> I totally agree! I don't like it at all, but this is not a system I am in
> any way in control of. This is a remote system, and I am just getting
> complained to because mails through mailservers I control bounce back.
>
> >> The problem is when this has been going on for a while. Then the
> >> "gw.mail.com" machine is blacklisted in Exim and it is bounced with:
> >Quite right. Sorry to be hard here, but I think this is your problem,
> >not Exim's problem.
>
> Well, yes, but how should I best handle mailservers that are setup this
> way? Sadly I can't get it changed since I don't have any control over it.
>
> --
> Thorkild
>
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